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Rashida Tlaib’s Comments Weren’t Anti-Semitic – They Were Philosemitic
Yesterday, Representative Rashida Tlaib was smeared as an anti-Semite by Donald Trump and company. The accusation is false, but that’s not news. Republicans have been using the anti-Semitism charge cynically for some time. What is new, bitterly ironic, and quite sad, is that not only did Tlaib say nothing at all anti-Semitic, but what she…
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Opinion Michael Oren’s Trainwreck Interview Shows Israelis No Longer Care What We Think
On Saturday, Isaac Chotiner at the New Yorker tried to interview Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States. He failed. After a series of tense arguments, Oren hung up, claiming that Chotiner was “not interested in anything I have to say” and asking him to “withdraw” the interview. I am not surprised that…
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Opinion A Muslim Congresswoman Misspoke And The Backlash Was Brutal. Again.
In an interview published on Saturday, Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian woman to be elected to Congress, offered a bizarre reading of history. “There’s always kind of a calming feeling when I think of the tragedy of the Holocaust, that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some…
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Opinion Jews Are Speaking Out Against China’s Ethnic Cleansing Of Muslims. Will It Help?
When a powerful nation interns at least a million Muslims in concentration camps in an effort to eradicate their culture and religion, is that a Jewish issue? And if so, what can and should be done? Because that is happening today. Today, the Chinese government is holding an estimated one to three million Muslim Uighurs…
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Opinion 6 Healing Moments From This Jewish Week
Violence, hatred, terror, disaster. The murder of innocent teenagers, intent on saving their friends. It was another hard week in America, and in the world. Here are a few of the beautiful, hopeful Jewish moments from this week. If you have a tip for a Jewish news story that brought you joy, please send it…
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Opinion Letter | Your ‘Pro-Israel’ Response Just Proved My Point
In his reply to my article, Aaron Kalman first takes issue with my characterization of the “Independent Arab” state described in the 1947 UN Partition Plan as a “Palestinian state.” I do not regard this as an error. The independent Arab state would have served Arab Palestinians, thus calling such an entity a Palestinian or…
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Opinion Horrified By That Eurovision Promo? Welcome To Israeli Humor!
On Friday morning, Israelis woke to a new controversial music video hyping the Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in Israel next week. ? This is the land of honey, honey! Let Lucy and Elia take you in a musical journey throughout the most important parts of Israel. We promise you won’t regret it!…
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Letters Letter | Yes, Jews Should Recognize The Nakba – But In Context.
Dear Editor, In his article “It’s Time for American Jews to Recognize The Nakba,” Abe Silberstein calls for an “honest accounting of [Israel’s] history.” Sadly, the author does not supply it. One key error is Silberstein’s description of the 1947 UN Partition Plan. Silberstein writes this plan “provided for a Palestinian state.” At best this…
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Opinion Israel Must Choose: Give The Palestinians A State – Or Equality.
Suppose President Trump’s long-awaited “deal of the century” turns out to be the “flop of the century.” Frankly, this is the most likely outcome since its architects have no real feel for or understanding of the conflict and what is needed to resolve it. After the initial hype, where would its eventual failure leave us?…
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Opinion It’s Time For American Jews To Recognize The Nakba
In a beautifully written column last week, the Israeli journalist Anshel Pfeffer explicated the contradiction at the heart of hasbara: by aggressively advocating for Israel’s right to exist, it implicitly grants that Israel’s legitimacy is actually a matter of debate. After all, he writes, “real countries don’t have to argue they are legitimate.” As we…
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Opinion With Rising Anti-Semitism, Jews Need Israel More Than Ever.
As Israel celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut, its 71st anniversary, it is ironic that the major item on the agenda of the Jewish people at this time is the resurgence of anti-Semitism. Ironic, because the overriding theme of Theodore Herzl in initiating the Zionist movement more than 120 years ago was that a Jewish homeland in the…
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